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you will immediately see your taxes go up president obama signed the fiscal cliff legislation into law wednesday after reuniting with his family in the whole why. but is all this hoopla really a surprise when you consider absolutely an efficient this government is when it comes to getting anything done thanks to the overzealous parity and corporate press for the last month straight we've been hearing nothing but speculation of the concept of falling over the so-called fiscal cliff that at the end of the day all of it is just one giant distraction and fact while pundits and politicians were regurgitating the exact same talking points about this issue a couple of very important news developments went completely under the radar for example it's just come out what was assumed about the occupy movement all along thanks to a recent for your request conducted by the partnership for civil justice fund we can now confirm that the f.b.i. was extensively monitoring the movement around the u.s. with counterterrorism agents and widespread surveillance you heard me right counterterrorism agents turn
you will immediately see your taxes go up president obama signed the fiscal cliff legislation into law wednesday after reuniting with his family in the whole why. but is all this hoopla really a surprise when you consider absolutely an efficient this government is when it comes to getting anything done thanks to the overzealous parity and corporate press for the last month straight we've been hearing nothing but speculation of the concept of falling over the so-called fiscal cliff that at the...
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it was self evident there was a self destructive behavior about wall street the laws started to deregulate the computers brought on a new speed and volume so gordon gekko was a conglomeration of people that we met and michael douglas portrayed it was slick charming and apparently it attracted a lot of young people to go to work on wall street the film was a surprise hit surprise. you know because an arcane movie about business numbers that doesn't necessarily appeal to the movie going audience twenty years later i went back for money never sleeps the sequel to wall street goes out come out of jail michael douglas is out of jail and the wall street that i found was even. crazier it was far greater than i had remembered in the eight years that i was stunned millions of dollars were now trains of dollars and again the banks that now the banks were deeply involved as you know in in trading and making profits for themselves as opposed to the economy or for their for the year for their clients so the world has got more topsy turvy and wall street more irresponsible my father would recognize. you
it was self evident there was a self destructive behavior about wall street the laws started to deregulate the computers brought on a new speed and volume so gordon gekko was a conglomeration of people that we met and michael douglas portrayed it was slick charming and apparently it attracted a lot of young people to go to work on wall street the film was a surprise hit surprise. you know because an arcane movie about business numbers that doesn't necessarily appeal to the movie going audience...
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protect our facebook page facebook dot com plus breaking the law that if you're wondering about what i'm doing when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin. while we are well into the holiday season that means a lot of people have been leaving town for a few days of our in our but it turns out if you're beautiful you can travel for free and the website matches attractive people that want to travel with wealthy suitors i want to travel with attractive people some people call it a win...
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hundred new settlements in east jerusalem on the land considered illegally occupied under international law this is in addition to the already approved construction of thousands of homes in the west bank retaliation over the palestinians u.n. status upgrade our middle east correspondent paula sleep has more. what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred secure homes in globe which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and certainly we've witnessed that kind of criticism and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks ago for upgraded statehood there have been some five and a half thousand new secure homes announced in terms of what the israelis were building israel has undergone
hundred new settlements in east jerusalem on the land considered illegally occupied under international law this is in addition to the already approved construction of thousands of homes in the west bank retaliation over the palestinians u.n. status upgrade our middle east correspondent paula sleep has more. what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred secure...
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finally reached a deal they claim is good for the country is it really though it will dive into the law congress just passed and see who the real winners and losers are. and it was a massive superstorm that caused billions of dollars of damage in new york and new jersey before the hundred twelfth congress came to an end the house g.o.p. punted on hurricane sandy relief so what does this mean for the states and residents left in the dark by their own government. and the pentagon has a problem the u.s. relies on drones to conduct warfare around the world now they've launched a sixteen million dollar effort to prevent high tech flying machines from being hacked so how serious of a problem is this for the u.s. drone program. it's wednesday january second happy new year five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. . topping the news this hour well they've done it again in literally an eleventh hour deal the u.s. house of representatives passed a fiscal cliff budget deal that president obama is expected to sign into law so that's that crisis averted cue the confetti ri
finally reached a deal they claim is good for the country is it really though it will dive into the law congress just passed and see who the real winners and losers are. and it was a massive superstorm that caused billions of dollars of damage in new york and new jersey before the hundred twelfth congress came to an end the house g.o.p. punted on hurricane sandy relief so what does this mean for the states and residents left in the dark by their own government. and the pentagon has a problem...
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of representatives passed a fiscal cliff budget deal that president obama is expected to sign into law so that's that crisis averted right well not even close the u.s. might have avoided economic calamity in the short run but the future of the country is still as uncertain as it was before if not more so let's take a look at the scorecard we wanted to know if the u.s. met the fiscal cliff deadline deadline of midnight december thirty first to avoid financial repercussions. no despite the fact that congress had almost a year to act it missed a deadline by a day luckily stock markets were closed on new year's day and closed on a positive note today as a result of this new deal and then there's the whole retroactive agreement saying mean that congress can retroactively decide it did not go over the fiscal cliff when in fact technically it did what about the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration or at the crux of the crisis no final decision on how much to cut and where to cut from has been delayed only by a couple of months what's more. could be even more harsh on military progra
of representatives passed a fiscal cliff budget deal that president obama is expected to sign into law so that's that crisis averted right well not even close the u.s. might have avoided economic calamity in the short run but the future of the country is still as uncertain as it was before if not more so let's take a look at the scorecard we wanted to know if the u.s. met the fiscal cliff deadline deadline of midnight december thirty first to avoid financial repercussions. no despite the fact...